Barbara Walters

It used to be that change at a network anchor desk was huge news. Now, with all the fragmentation, not so much. Anchor changes like the ones announced at ABC News today are a real barometer of how far network news has sunk in prestige and power -- though the networks are still making money off the nightly newscasts as they crawl on bloody knees to the media boneyard. ABC News announced today that it is shuffling its anchor desk. Diane Sawyer, who helped make "World News" a more aggressive operation and led a ratings surge that overtook Brian Williams and his sinking NBC News ship, is leaving the anchor desk. Probably the best translation of all the...

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It used to be that change at a network anchor desk was huge news.
Now, with all the fragmentation, not so much.
Anchor changes like the ones announced at ABC News today are a real barometer of how far network news has sunk in prestige and power --...

Barbara Walters will retire in May of next year, a source familiar with her plans told Reuters on Thursday. (Deadline Hollywood broke the story; Read it here.)
The 83-year-old executive producer and co-host

In the days of the late Mike Wallace, "60 Minutes" was known for hard-hitting, aggressive journalism that asked the questions viewers wanted answered and held the powerful accountable.
The Jan. 27 program on which Steve Kroft interviewed...

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You have to hand it to Syria's Bashar Assad; the man's got chutzpah. His interview in Damascus last week with ABC's Barbara Walters was either a case study in delusional thinking or unbounded cynicism. Mr. Assad's amazing performance, in which he denied...

The departure last week of Marianne Banister from WBAL-TV after 15 years of co-anchoring a team that always finished first or second in its time period raised big questions about the changing face of television news in Baltimore.In the past year and half,...

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Barbara Walters is taking a walk down memory lane with a TV series revisiting big news stories she covered in her career. The Investigation Discovery channel said Thursday that "Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals" will debut Nov. 2....

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There's more host upheaval ahead for ABC's "The View," with Rosie Perez leaving the daytime talk show.
In a memo to "View" staffers Tuesday, executive producer Bill Wolff said that Perez has decided to focus on acting.
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Raven-Symone is now officially a co-host of "The View."
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Comic celebrities turned out for David Letterman's late-night farewell — and so did his biggest audience in more than 21 years.
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The former sixth-grade teacher imprisoned for raping a student she later married wants to teach again.
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Barbara Walters’ famous chats with the infamous have found a home on cable network Investigation Discovery.
The true crime channel owned by Discovery Communications announced Tuesday that it has ordered “American Scandal,” a new series in which Walters...